His superpowers made him invincible. Or so he thought. Ever since his head injury, Arthur has become fearless – arrogant even
Book One - THE SECRET OF EXCALIBUR
Book Two - THE REVENGE OF EXCALIBUR Her father had superpowers . . . Pamela does too . . . And life ain’t easy. A self-i ...
A seductive spy. A powerful vampire. A deadly assassin after them both...
When a rogue vampire group emerges from the shadows to enslave mortals, Dr. Cerissa Patel is the only one with an inside track to stop them.
The catch - she must go undercover in a vampire-control ...
A modern day, shapeshifting sheriff. He’s the sheriff of a sparsely populated county in Montana. His blood brother and childhood best friend is Chief of Police on the Blackfoot Reservation, but they no longer speak. His deputy is a southern transplant with the body of a high-priced call girl, a v ...
I start my night in a Catwoman costume at a Vegas casino…and end up shifting into my dragon form for the first time ever in mid-plummet from the roof.
Except I can’t actually fly. Oops.
Turns out being the first dragon shifter queen to rule the witching world (while I’m simultaneo ...
To discover the truth, she will bleed. Was it suicide? Two months after finding her stepmother’s corpse, Maddy is still unconvinced. Magic users like her stepmother don’t spill their blood without purpose. Blood magic is illegal for minors. But both of Maddy’s birth parents are long dead, and the tr ...
Olessia is a girl like no other on Earth. Powerful and dangerous, she is on the run, desperate to escape the incredible fate that awaits her. Ryder is an everyday highschooler about to discover her world is nothing like she imagined. And those ghosts she sees? Not ghosts at all. A fast-paced scifi ...
Earth is just a prison realm for humans, who don't know it. FYI: Accidentally breaking out is frowned upon. Well, crap. Thanks to some epic bad luck, Vera tumbles through the gate separating Earth from the other realms of the world. Beyond Earth, the world is full of magic. And completely of ...
Josef Magarac was a brave man, a strong man, a hard-working immigrant who only wanted a ...
Some see Alec Winters as a breathtaking, amazing angel, a savior. Others see him as a mind-blowing nightmare, the most terrifying demon their minds could ever conjure. An Alec Winters Series is a dark-fantasy, vengeance-driven 4-book thriller series, beginning with Prelude, a behind-the-scenes lo ...
DC bustles, the light from the city fills the night. But in the dark alleys and backstreets, only slivers of light from a full moon dance. In such an alley, a shadowy figure is hunched over a body. She lifts her head to reveal soulless eyes and fangs dripping with blood as she licks her lips with ex ...
Everyone knows not to go out at night unless you want to deal with monsters. That was until a magical item allowed its user to "smell" when a monster was near. Now there are ambitions to build a monster alarm system throughout town. But some creatures, such as the necromancer, have plans of their ow ...
No one knows why certain people are blessed with a paranormal gift but Tessa's abilities despite her youth, are extraordinary. Her psychic capabilities and capacity to manipulate certain metals with the power of her mind, make the teenager a helpful resource to her father, the sheriff of Falcon Ridg ...
Raven Kennedy is a prisoner who never forgave himself for his unspeakable crimes. In a world that has descended into chaos, he becomes a part of the Phoenix Project.
In prisons across the country, inmates fight to the death while the nation cheers them on. Struggling with his guilt, Raven ...
The time for hiding is finished. The dead are restless. Fate and destiny collide. Twins Cayden and Avery Tiernan have grown up in isolation on the fringe of the realm. Gifted with forbidden skills, they hide their growing magical powers. Ancient prophecies speak of the ones with the power to depo ...
The world calls him vampire.
But that’s not who I know. He’s my fellow patient at Crimson Hollow, a facility for those infected with the vampire virus. He’s lived for more than a century and been called many things. Vagabond. Circus freak. Prisoner. Murderer. Now he’s the world’s most fam ...
My life used to be so simple. Get in, outsex a pesky incubus and get out with the cash. The vampires changed that. I hate vampires. Firstly, the Demon Child woke and went on a feeding spree. He’s strong, lightning fast and as cute as a button. I fight demons by using my sexual aura, which makes hunt ...
Falling into a world filled with demons wasn’t exactly what Alexandra needed in her life. The only family she’d ever known was killed and, unbeknownst to her, a target was placed squarely on her back. All she wanted to do was mourn her loss and get on with the rest of her life. She certainly didn’t ...
Werewolves, Vampires and Dragons. Conspiracy, Romance and Adventure. Binge read the now completed Red Wolf Saga series in this special box set! At over 1,500 printed pages and a decade of publications, it will keep you turning pages late into the night—at a fraction of the cost of the individual ...
The fate of Kyle Stevens hangs in the balance after blacking out in the Cave of Treasures and waking up to find himself in another realm and an historical even playing out in front of him. The horror brings him to his knees. Then an elusive and long forgotten relic from his past presents itself agai ...
Welcome to Misfit Academy! Correction, I think. Welcome to Mage Academy! If someone would’ve told me three months ago that this is where I’d find myself, I would’ve called them a liar. Yet here I am. All I did to earn this spot was time travel and accidentally, depending on who you ask, ...
A night of celebrating a new beginning ends in a nightmare that Grace can’t escape. When she wakes up in a strange place three days later, she realizes her life has been turned upside down. She’s been forced into a world where magic is real along with monsters of myth. The vampire who marked her is ...
"Combination of The Hunger Games, The 100 and Divergent!" They said nothing could survive outside. They lied… Welcome to Echelon, a domed city that protects the survivors of a ravaged Earth. Here, the wealthy elite live in Sky, high above the poor dwellers of Dirt. And Dirt children known as Decimit ...
Jewel thief and newly-turned vampire Sorren sets out to steal a priceless brooch possessed by an ancient evil before it sets the Black Dragon loose in medieval Antwerp.
This series of adventures spans over 500 years, from the 1500s to modern day as a small cabal of vampires and their h ...
Who Guards the Angel?
Richard Eastman wasnt looking for redemption. He was content drowning his memories of the Gulf War, his dead brother, and a father whose love had always seemed unattainable. But when an angel whose wings have been sawn off arrives in his life, Captain Eastman ...
Living in the shadows was their only means of survival. Now they’re about to rise and show who they truly are.
The Telescope initiative has an important task: to make sure the plane from ...
Two years have passed since Abigail Blanque’s life was changed forever. After suffering a great loss, she fed into her darkness and pain, killing every rogue vampire within her reach. Abby finds herself marked by an evil ancestor hell-bent on returning from her talisman-encased prison. She needs Abb ...
AWAKENING THE VAMPIRE SHADOW-WALKERS BOOK 3 (This is a standalone story.) She protects supernaturals. He hunts them. Do you like a passionate romance with a tortured vampire hero and a supernatural murder mystery? Rock Star meets Supernatural in this exciting new series. The women are the rock stars ...
Kynet never planned to be at the forefront of the rebellion. That was her brother’s hobby: rallying the people. Plotting against the leaders. Running into dangers she’d have to negotiate him out of.
That was before the Poisoner tried to kill her.
Left with strange powers in the af ...
Welcome to the Vilokan Asylum of the Magically and Mentally Deranged. I'm Doctor Cain. I'll be supervising your treatment plan. Yes, before you ask, I am that Cain. I've come a long way since I became the world's first murderer. I'm now a licensed psychiatrist. What is it you just asked? You he ...
A ghostly cat may be the only clue to help Cassidy, Sorren and Teag stop a necromancer's deadly spree. Set in the world of the Deadly Curiosities urban fantasy series.
Charleston's hauntings have powered up, with glowing orbs and nearly-solid ghosts. When a total stranger wills her mansion to Trifles and Folly, Cassidy, Teag and their allies need to figure out the link between the house's mysterious owner and the sudden supernatural attacks before all hell brea ...
Read the book readers are comparing to Harry Potter, Throne of Glass, and Anne Bishop's Others Series!
A girl who uses her illusions to fool the world into thinking she's just like all the other magi.
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These sexy dragons find love when they least expect it and sometimes when they don’t want it. Enter a fantasy where devastatingly handsome men become dragons at will. Split into four territories, their power struggles put the women they love in danger. It’s the last mistake their enemy will make. A ...
Teenage angst meets dark fantasy in this fast-paced urban fantasy debut.
Ivan is afraid he’s going mad. Because the alternative is worse.
Ivan has just learned the truth: his sleepy hometown is home to a Viking death cult, intent on raising a terrifying power. ...
Magical danger lurks in the forest. But Greg Gillie, a handsome Scot with a mysterious past, protects the Shrouded Isle and the lands beyond from the mischievous, dangerous fae. A woman arrives disturbing the wee folk. When American widow, Becca Shaw and her two daughters arrive, Greg’s task becomes ...
Escape to sunny Corfu but beware... Lizzie does her best to help her brother adjust, and together they set out to do the witch’s bidding, in the hope that if they do as she asks she will finally let them be. The witch’s ravens are forever spying on them or paying them a visit, but soon the sight of ...
A museum in Mudflat is a last straw in the battle to avoid attention and it brings out the worst in the residents. Claire knows the dangers of swords and guns and black magic, but is there really such a thing as death by digital? First published October 2016, this novel is the eighth of the Mudflat ...
I’m Ivy Lane, and if I never see another faerie again, it’ll be too soon. Twenty years after the faeries came and destroyed the world as we knew it, I use my specialist skills to keep rogue faeries in line and ensure humans and their magically gifted neighbours can coexist (relatively) peacefully ...
The magnetic poles have shifted. Powers ignite in their veins. But are their emerging Unhidden talents strong enough to defend them from annihilation? Anna Taylor is barely holding her anxiety at bay. With scales growing on her body and shocking magic now at her command, the teacher flees after bein ...
Having killed her last producer, stuntwoman Lee Striga's next film shoot takes her to the voodoo-soaked bayous and haunted back alleys of New Orleans, where sinister supernatural figures stalk the streets. In a dark corner of the French Quarter, an arcane tattoo artist is using his clients in ritual ...
Former ADA Alastair Maddox pursues Prohibition Chicago’s most dangerous monsters after witnessing the deaths of his parents and grandparents as a boy. When a former colleague in Chicago PD comes to ask Alastair for help, he comes face to face with the mysterious Alexandra DeLane. But something’s off ...
Pick a master and serve. Serve them well and die. Marigold wants to die the right way. She wants a transformative bite from her master. Vampires have it all: the statuesque look, the immortal life, and the power to enchant others. All she has is debt, a distracted boyfriend, and a desire ...
All good things come to an end…but not if she can help it. The life Dahlia built in Sentinel City is over, shattered by betrayal and crushed beneath the rubble of a world she’s come to love. But, in the apocalypse, grief is a luxury none can afford. Least of all, the scaled vigilante fighting to pro ...
A lone wolf. A nest of vampires. Can he find the monster who turned his girlfriend before he loses her forever? Lone wolf Clifford Crane is grieving the death of the lover who transformed him. Without her in it, he wants nothing more to do with her world or her pack. Trying to find a new purpo ...
Who knew death had more than one ending? I hoped remembering my past would make completing my unfinished business more clear, but it’s only twisted everything into a complicated mess. Somehow, I have to make things right with my sister, who just happens to be an Xer and believes ghosts like me ...
She'd rather be a normal eighteen-year-old … but not much chance of that, when she can raise the dead. When Judy discovers she's a necromancer who can raise the dead, she does her best to deny this unholy gift. But after leaving the orphanage for a mysterious manor house, she learns that not ...
They say the well laid plans of mice and men go awry and such is the case for Eva and Zoe.Their plans for a family go horribly wrong when Eva is involved in a life threatening accident. Zoe has to contend with the possibility of losing the woman she loves but that's not her only problem. The acciden ...
Humanity is at risk... The fallen angels are up to something. Has she stumbled upon a plot to end the world? Quayla made a mistake and people died. It's not easy being an elemental phoenix trying to save humanity. There are rules to follow. Her boss, Vitae, doesn't like her and she has no idea why. ...
Aaron White only wants to find a place for himself and fulfill his destiny in a post-apocalyptic magical world where ruthlessness, tactics, strategy, and strength determine value. In a countryside preyed upon by monsters, Aaron must hide that he is one himself: a vampire endowed with incredible p ...
Dan Baker is loved by most in the small town of Jerrod, Texas. Everyone except Virgil Hooper. The animosity between the two families runs deep, spanning three generations, reaching its peak when Hooper loses most of his farm to bankruptcy. Dan outbids him at an auction for a piece of farm equipment, ...
Out of the spotlight, in the darker corners of the studio backlots, Hollywood hides a remarkable secret. Actor or actress, set designer, electrician, best boy, or grip—in la-la land, it pays not to be human. Vampires, succubae, trolls, elementals, goblins—studios hire anyone and anything that can ta ...
Dreamwakers are like fire... they burn when they're hot. And some are a living nightmare.
By accident, sixteen-year-old Wynter discovers her power to summon dreamwakers - people born from dreams that exist in physical form. Her friends have trouble believing her power exi ...
A choice was made. Now it’s time to reap the rewards…or suffer the consequences… It was all happening according to plan. Rori chose power over love, and as a result, put himself in the running to be the next emperor of all vampires. Then someone threatened to expose his witch (along with all other p ...
A golden dragon. A hidden enemy. Blackmail. A secret group of smugglers blackmail Sam and Jake. The two young guardians must find the golden dragon, or Jake dies. Their friend Uncle Biggie and his chimera crocle-lion pledge to help them. Yet everyone wants the golden dragon, including the powerful E ...
The Hawthorne University Witch Series, books 4-6, is available in this three-book collection. This trilogy is a standalone series that can be enjoyed without having read the previous books.
Book 4: Witch Mirror
Reflections of a wicked witch. ...
Monsters are real - and we are their prey. Elizabeth Fox is small, dark, and deadly. As the new leader of the Steelheads, Washington’s top monster hunting team, she must face down monsters in single combat, absorb their power, and banish their spirits – or die trying. A family is slaughtered in thei ...
Fate is fickle. At least that’s how Zoey Morgan sees it. As a witch old enough to know better, yet too sexy for any man to resist, she is tired of running. From her past. From the pain. But especially from her worst nightmare. Not being able to save her family from the clutches of a great evil.
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OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (AND ALL MYSTERY LOVERS) REJOICE -- FATHER OF LIES is the first in an exciting new series taken directly from newly discovered files of John H. Watson, M.D., friend, biographer and colleague of England's legendary detective, Sherlock Holmes. When his brother Mycroft disappears, Sh ...
Starting school at Hawthorne University was not going well, until I met my classmate Alondra. Allie was different. She was goth. But she was also mysterious, confident and fun. I was into that. My name’s Liam. My friends call me Lee. Things got weird after I accompanied her to her haunts. Poltergeis ...
A New YA Supernatural Fantasy packed with Action and Adventure! If you like sinister demons, warrior angels, supernatural powers, ancient lineages, with a twist of deception and ruthless revenge... then you don't want to miss this new exciting page-turning series! Three Teens…Three Fallen…Humanity's ...
Tommy is devastated to learn his beloved Nana is dying. She’s the only family member who’s ever really made him feel loved and accepted. Fortunately, he meets Eve, the hospice worker assigned to care for Nana. Her presence is comforting, and she always knows the right thing to say to ma ...
If you enjoy kicka$$ heroines, magic, witches, vampires, and hybrids with a unique twist, you'll love these books. They all have something to fight for, and everything comes with a price. Fans of the Vampire Diaries and The Originals will want to sink their teeth into this three-book box set. One-cl ...
Nia hates people. She also hates vampires. Too bad she is one. An innocent bit of fun finds Nia tangled with a dangerous man and the powers that be send her to live with the vampire lord of Las Vegas. Their efforts to get Nia back on the straight ...
Two Time Award Winner First Place Winner of the 2020 Writer's Digest Self-Published E-Book Award for Fantasy 2021 Readers' Favorite Honorable Mention in the Fiction - Fantasy - General
It's all very well and good destroying the world, extinguishing any spark of hope, and ruling with an ir ...
The Singletons—Julie, Tyler, and their little sister Elizabeth—are on the run, dragged out of bed by their drug-addicted mom in the middle of the night. While on their way to the family farm, in the middle of Michigan, they see a murder by strange people in black trench coats, with weapons they’ve n ...
Vampire hunter Petra Maguire thought she'd left her past behind . . . When Petra turned eighteen, she couldn’t move out of Faerie fast enough. Hunting down the rogue vampire who killed her mother was Petra's sole mission in life, despite her father’s urging to serve her people back home. But when sh ...
After a mysterious, violent accident ripped away the memories of her past, Paige Matthews has been on a mission to rebuild her life. That life wasn't supposed to include being attacked by demons or forced to leave the only home that she remembers. Riley Stone can make the dead do his bidding - for t ...
This is my Midlife. I have a bat in my belfry…a REAL bat. The woods in my back yard is full of something dark from my nightmares. I’ve got a mysterious and sexy neighbor who seems to appear out of nowhere. And my best friends? Yeah, they’re witches. Midlife is definitely not shaping up to be the ...
𝑻𝒐 𝒔𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝑶𝒍𝒚𝒎𝒑𝒖𝒔, 𝒂 𝒇𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝑮𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒌 𝒅𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒈𝒐𝒅𝒔 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒎 He's the descendant of Zeus, who follows the storms and leaves a trail of broken hearts in his wake. She's a small-town librarian, who dreams of adventure. Forced together to save their worlds, sparks ...
An Angel. A Witch. A Demon. And A Choice. Creatures from outer realms suck, as any gatekeeper worth their salt will tell you. Welcome to Rogan's life, an orphaned seventeen-year-old who lives and trains with other misfits under her uncle's roof, keeping Earth safe from non-human realm jumpers. Ro ...
Warning: The Bermuda Triangle is a portal to another dimension. And it takes Amanda to the land of God. Will she survive? They call their world Tuala. There is magic. And there is psychic power. The denizens of this world can travel at the speed of thought. It can be dangerous for a mortal from Eart ...
Stela Funar is a sixteen-year-old girl whose strange aunt and uncle force her to move constantly, and without explanation. To make matters worse—all things fantasy are strictly prohibited. But when the family is whisked back to Romania due to an unfortunate circumstance, Stela uncovers the truth abo ...
Secicao. A powerful drug of immeasurable power and value, but one that's also destroying the planet. Pontopa Wells is an uncompromising entrepreneur with a dragon and a secicao operation in the Southlands. When she is contracted by King Cini, to incorporate her business with that of the conceited Fa ...
Bree Leigh Blackwell has mommy issues of the worst kind. Who wouldn't, considering her mother is the Goddess of Death? As a doctor, Bree has devoted her life to helping others. Unfortunately, the Woman in Black, her adoptive mother Morgan, has other plans and bestows unimaginable power upon her. ...
Death is a country we see through the tiny keyhole of an immovable door. Raised by their grandmother after their parents’ death, Chloe and Olivia Borders are now in mourning for Rose. The Alzheimer’s that forced them to be split into separate foster homes has taken their last living family member. A ...
Running a dating agency can be a killer... Shelley Linley is sick of trolls. Yet another prankster has applied to her dating agency. This one says he's a vampire and he wants Shelley to help him find a wife. Meeting him for a second interview against all her better judgement, Shelley discover ...
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Sarah Bennett is a real estate agent by day and a masked crime fighter at night. She’s her neighborhood’s watch on steroids and has been doing her best at keeping the streets of New Athens City a danger free zone. As a former lab rat injected with the Castor variant, it’s literally in her DNA that s ...
Phevos, an ancient Greek, remembers very little from his childhood. What’s more, his mysterious father never explained how his mother disappeared years ago. When Phevos turns twenty, his father sends him on a time-traveling journey to modern-day Athens without telling him the reason. There, Phevos f ...
He can speak to the dead. But will giving them justice get him killed?
Reed Lavender lives two lives—one as a detective and another as a reaper. Hearing the last words of the dead is a handy skill in his line of work, but magic can’t solve all his problems. While investig ...
Haunted by his past. Hunted in the present. Uncertain what is real. Athson has seen things that aren't there and suffered fits since being tragically orphaned as a child at the hands of trolls and Corgren the wizard. When a strange will mentioning a mysterious bow comes into his possession, he's not ...
Demons, vampires and shifters are all in a days work for occult detective, Ezra Silver. But when a cop friend comes to him with a problem of shade demons devouring the locals in the small town of Halfmoon, things get a little hairy. Ezra has his hands full juggling a possession case, an arsonist sor ...
The interplanetary gates have existed between the five planets and the Netherworld for as long as living memory. Dr. Elisabeth Avery is a woman caught between two worlds. Little does she know that others like her, other half-breeds, are being hunted. When a creature drags a princess into the Netherw ...
New Pittsburgh, 1898 – a crucible of invention and intrigue. Born from the ashes of devastating fire, flood and earthquake, the city is ruled by the shadow government of The Oligarchy. In the swarming streets, people of a hundred nations drudge to feed the engines of progress. The Department of Supe ...
A mysterious Romanian monk arrives in New York. He brings with him a strange offer for social media influencers: In exchange for hundreds of millions more followers, the influencers must surrender their soul. But, there is an ancient evil that must be fed. And a merciless vigilante who will ...
A fresh new blend of dystopian urban fantasy, for fans of The Hunger Games, Divergent, or The Mortal Instruments. 16-year-old Daria Grayson is tired. Which doesn’t make sense. She’s taking her daily dose of miracle-drug Sendrax, just like everyone else. And she’s sleeping a full 45 minutes every sin ...
Love comes with a price – especially among the undead. Sunny Martin is on the run from a monster—the monster within herself. Since the night she was drained of her blood and left to die, she has lived alone and in fear of the beast and its violent urges, always on the move. When a tumultuous affair ...
Seven stories. Two truths:
-Love and terror make strange bedfellows.
-The line between salvation and damnation is heartbreak-thin.
In this haunting anthology, souls are tested, timelines bent, and darkness finds new shape in the ...
Freedom. Magic. Vengeance.
Vilas is a man consumed by anger. Kept prisoner in the city that slaughtered his people, he dreams of the day his magic is unsealed so he can burn everything to ash. When the city's queen asks for his help hunting down rebel cultists, he agrees ...
Grab your broomstick and fly into the enchanting worlds of witches and their furry friends, written to support Mission 22. You’ll find witches flying by moonlight, black cats roaming the nights, comedy, romance, and magic between the pages. This book has stories to enchant any reader, with some stea ...
"Seven stars and a standing ovation. Twice. This author's style is revolutionary." "Jonathan Livingston Seagull of Paranormal Romances" MAYA He's all I've ever wanted, but I can't possibly let myself love him. LUKE Loving her means letting her go, knowing she may never come back. When your destiny i ...
Katie and the team take on an ancient preternatural threat that far exceeds their own abilities while seeking to prove one of them is not a murderer; Amy is assigned a case which lies squarely in Katie’s area of expertise but has to tackle it alone. A treacherous new conspiracy surfaces with deadly ...
Frankie and Gillian have had their super rivalry for way too long. Frankie, aka Masko the psychic hero, is tired of the same routine. Gillian, aka Char the pyro villain, enjoys the ongoing battles and wouldn't trade her silly villainous fun for anything. However, a new threat invades the city of ...
Bridget Sway is newly dead. And confused. Instead of cloud cars and harp-playing cherubs, the afterlife is working a full-time job that doesn’t pay and a heinous communal living situation with housemates who have no concept of privacy or personal space. As if that wasn’t bad enough, on her first ...
Three full-length Amazon bestselling fantasy novels in one collection: The Tower's Alchemist, Dark Rift, and Circadian Circle. Be a spy. Save the world. If only it were that simple. The Nazis have unleashed occult forces throughout Europe, and the Allies are forced to recruit wizards to help them fi ...
Tangela is a brilliant half-Mersa inventor, but to her family, she’s just an endless supply of Inspira grain. After years of buying their affection to make up for being an outcast, she hits her breaking point when a surprise 2,000-Inspira bill for SeaGiving dinner lands in h ...
Bintou Sissoko is caught in the middle of an epic mess. Long gone are the days when she could peacefully lose herself in ancient texts, yearning for the quiet life. Now, she's the liaison for the old gods, a promotion she never asked for. As the master translator, Bintou knows her skills are cruc ...
